We eventually reinstalled everything removed the access to the network drive
and networking to other computers as well as the desk top screen and speakers
and that either solved the problem or my wife gave up complaining. eitherway
we never were able to truly fix the problem.
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I am having the same problem. I've had my HP Pavilion laptop for a few
months. It has been fine up to now (except that startup is taking
longer and longer) but yesterday, or the day before, when I tried to
shut down, the spinning thing remained on screen and it wouldn't shut
down. After about 10 minutes or so, I just pressed the power switch to
turn it off. When I turned it back on, it asked if I wanted to boot in
safe mode -- I just chose to boot up in normal mode.
The next time I tried to shut down, the same thing happened. I left
the room for about 10 minutes with the shutting down spinner on the
screen -- when I came back, the screen was black but showing the white
meter thing at the bottom of the screen. Then it said Welcome to
Windows. I pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del, and it gave me the logoff/shutdown/
restart options. When I selected shutdown, it went into the shutdown
loop again and I just had to press the power button to shut it down.
The only thing I have changed is that I installed and reinstalled a
wireless router. The first time I installed the router, I had no
problems with shutdown. The router was working fine at first but then
I started having problems connecting to the Internet. Anyway, to cut a
long story short, I had to reinstall/reconfigure the router a few
times. However, I think I had shut down successfully once since the
last install/configure.
Has anybody found a solution to this problem yet?